Report: Some “star” players consider sitting out until Kaepernick, Reid have jobs

Posted by Mike Florio on May 27, 2018, 8:18 PM EDT

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As noted here last week, the adjustment to the national anthem policy should remove any impediment to the employment of quarterback Colin Kaepernick and safety Eric Reid, since neither will be able to kneel during the national anthem. Some players reportedly have come to the same conclusion.

Shaun King, an independent reporter who has had several anthem-related stories in recent months, contends that “[s]everal NFL stars have told me they are considering sitting out the season until the de facto ban of Eric Reid and Colin Kaepernick is removed and both men are given spots back on rosters.”

King also claims that the unnamed “star” players hope to get 25 percent of all players to sit out with them.

If they’re truly considering staying away from training camp and/or the regular season, it will get very expensive. Teams can fine players up to $40,000 per day for skipping camp. In addition to any forfeited game checks, players will be susceptible to an attack on any unearned amounts of signing bonuses they previously have received.

And while teams often will look the other way when holdouts arising from contract disputes end, it’s safe to say that owners wouldn’t react well to walkouts based on the status of Kaepernick and Reid.

Besides, if players truly thinking about sitting out at great expense later, why not sit out at little or no expense now? The Organized Team Activities are voluntary, and more than a few players are skipping them for a variety of reasons. If “several NFL stars” are thinking about sending a message later, why not send a message immediately?

The fact that there’s been no chatter about players choosing not to show up on Tuesday for the next round of OTAs, either due to the new anthem rule or to the ongoing unemployment of Kaepernick and Reid, makes it hard to believe that any star players (or any non-star players) would give up money — and potentially give plenty of money back — all in the name of helping Kaepernick and Reid.

Had a feeling that, sooner or later, Trump’s cheap politicking on this issue would make an issue that probably would’ve faded away on its own become a major power struggle. I don’t think it’s going to end well for either party.

The only players that could afford to sit out would have to be stars that have received really large paydays already. Any other players will be looking at tons of pressure from their families as they walk away from money they will need in 20 years. I can’t see this action being too successful.

Please do so and while doing it wonder why the NBA has a rule that all follow that every player must be on the sidelines and court standing for the National Anthem.

If your issue is “police brutality” set up work-shops on how people should act when pulled over by the police (there is a right way and a wrong way) and make donations toward police training as a pilot project to see if alleged incidents go down in areas where your training/ideas are implemented.

Those are real-world actions that can make a difference. At this point, kneeling is empty and useless virtue-signalling (which is maybe why they advocate for it).

The only way the players can effectively win any
concessions would possibly be through something like
a “ wildcat “ strike. A wildcat strike is defined as a
spontaneous action without notice to the employer.
If the players stuck together and were willing to miss
a few game checks it would be effective. I personally do
not think it would work. The basic nature of an NFL
is self-preservation. It is a me first league and one cannot
blame the players.
The one group where wildcats would work is in the college
level. College players should unite and walk out on big
games. College football players are getting ripped off

Oh yes, lets quote Shaun King, the idiot! The Guy who just ran with a story the other night sending out tweets and e-mails about how a Women in Dallas, who is American American, was raped by a Dallas Police officer after arresting Her for a DWI. He put out the officers name, address, Facebook account saying He did that. Only thing was the body camera that recorded the whole incident showed none of that happened. He still has not apologized to the officer and His family that He put in jeopardy. Lets not put anything by Him on here until it gets fact checked!

Lol. You mean the same Shaun King who last week claimed that a woman was raped by a deputy only to look like a fool when the video came out? And the same Shaun King who just today retweeted a story from 2014 and said it was happening right now?

Using King as a source is a joke. But call me when somebody actually gives up hundreds of thousands of dollars of pay because of Kaepernick or Reid.

They’ll sit out of a sport and lose salary when they could just take the money from fines and kick it over to these guys because the problem they fail to realize is that these two players aren’t good enough at football to make a team when accompanied with the headaches that are attached to them.

Fantastic! Anyone who wants to sit out should do so. Let those who want to play football, play and those who want to demonstrate, demonstrate. I predict those who demonstrate will see how quickly they’re forgotten about and will return to the field when that reality sets in.

Let em’ sit out. They won’t last 2 weeks. By the way, you do know that Shaun King is very loose on the facts, especially regarding his own racial identity. He also tried to push a story by a woman was claimed she was exually assaulted by a TX State Trooper last week and it was fully debunked by the Trooper’s body camera. Shaun King is bad news.

Let then go and stick their heads in the sand and see who cares ! This has gone quite far enough and if players have such a grandiose view of themselves that the game and NFL cannot get along without them, then let them discover what a dose of ” reality check ” feels like. Arrogance and conceit starts to wear very thin, very soon and humility will go infinitely farther. Let us not forget that this is entertainment and one has many choices on how to spend their allotted portion for same.

Is this the same Shaun King that wrote a story about the Texas policeman that supposedly kidnapped and tried to get the black lady to adhere to sexual favors to get herself let go, is that the Shaun King we are talking about? When the police body cam came out it was proved that the officer was completely professional and did nothing wrong. Did Shaun King come out and apologize, well sort of he blamed the lady and stated that anyone who criticized him was racist. He practically ruined the troopers life, I think I won’t believe anything that comes out of his mouth…

Well, we all know Shaun King is a reliable ‘source’ of information. You are quoting this guy? Really? Isn’t this the same Black Lives Matter guy that just got discredited for claiming a white cop raped a black women during a traffic stop, posted the officers name, then had the police department broadcast the entire unedited body am showing the entire claim was a lie? He shouldn’t be worrying about NFL anthem protests. He should be preparing a legal team. Hope he gets sued.

oh dear Lord please let this happen…..I don’t ask for much…but this would be amazing to see happen bc I really believe these guys have been straight up blackballed by the owners….owners are dug in and showing who runs this league….please let these players finally see that they are not as important as they think…they are not bigger than the flag…as we celebrate memorial day…let them see what they knelt on and who they offended.

This whole farce is overtly based on propaganda and is at best vaguely racist. They are peacefully protesting a serous issue, and fans throw out their faux-patriotic outrage, but stay quiet and cheer on players like Tyreke Hill.

THe minute you said Shaun King I stopped reading. He did nice work when it came time to catch the alt right criminals in Charlottesville, but pretty much every other thing I’ve ever seen from him has been pure racism.

I am sympathetic to the issue. It is a brutal fact that there will not be a resolution to “what might have been”. I am a fan of the Steelers. It is a team and an ownership that is generally seen as having a very non-racial culture, and with the “Rooney Rule” a reputation for investing to make things better racially across the league.

But. Anyone who remembers the Michael Sam signing by the Rams should know that this ship has sailed. It is not possible anymore to be objective about the football of Kaepernick. The point of the league is to compete. It is impossible in life to separate politics from other things. And yet. You have to. To compete. It includes being objective about football. And it includes all those who are investing their lives in the pursuit of the Superbowl to believe that the decisions being made are objective about football.

In recent weeks we have seen Cliff Avrill talk about Pete Carroll’s decision to pass in the Superbowl. We have seen Patriots talk about Bill Belicek’s decision to sit out Butler in the Superbowl. We have even seen Ben talk about using the Third Round on someone who will add value two three years down the road.

How can any team that is asking it’s players for every last ounce, sign Colin. They can’t.

Colin Kaepernik is paying for his protest with his career. Big price. I think if he appreciated that at the time, it would not have changed anything. You may or may not respect his protest. You have to respect the investment.

Go for it. They would be giving up paychecks so I will certainly believe in their sincerity. Unfortunately for them though the owners can ride that out easily given how they are still making their money while the games still get played. Actually they will be making just as much but paying less as they save on the salaries of sitting players. And if its 25% of the players then the effect will be spread accross teams. For every owner whos team is doing a little or even a lot worse there will be another owner whos team is doing a better by the same margin so across all owners this wont shift any voting numbers. And then historically the players never have the ability to last without their paychecks. Plus any high priced vets that see a younger player filling their shoes for peanuts has to consider the loss of pay might stop being voluntary. And if they are doung this during camp they are just giving the teams extra time to groom their replacements before the season starts.

So this is just empty noise my guess. The fact that the players making that threat are ‘unnamed’ is a hint there might not be as much courage going on as some might pretend.

announce the names whats the big secret nobody really plays anymore anyways its flag football…when r they going to put in the we will not sue clause besided the 100 million dollar contracts like parasailing or bungee jumping nobody forces these college athletes to accept these rookie contracts and join the league

I would like the protesting players to utilize their platform.
The national anthem is a moment to reflect upon our country.
The players probably do have the right to peacefully protest during it.
But I would like the players to utilize their platform, instead.

I am not asking for zero protesting. I am not telling them what to do.
I am confident there are other approaches that would yield more positive results with less backlash, however.

SOMEONE BE SURE TO TELL THESE “STAR” PLAYERS THAT IF THE NFL CAN GO ON WITHOUT JOHNNY UNITAS, DICK BUTKUS, JIM BROWN, GAYLE SAYERS AND DEACON JONES-THEN THE NFL WON’T MISS THEM AT ALL. SOMETIMES PEOPLE TEND TO LOSE REALITY AND THINK THEY’RE MORE THAN WHAT THEY ARE…………………..

Please I hope they sit. There’s new stars right behind them. That’s what crack’s me up. Anyone player can quit sit out whatever. There is someone dying to take your place. The line is a mile long. It is a privilege to play professional sports.

I have very serious doubts that Shaun King has ANY actual sources for players who plan to sit out. If 25% of the players sit out that is fine by me, the other 75% can play and a few extra rookies will make some squads.

Have at it. You won’t be missed. Plenty of others would give anything to have the job that you feel is less important than protesting. Actually I would give you credit for putting your money where your mouths are….I just don’t think anyone is going to do it.

I’m a bit confused about something.
So players aren’t supposed to protest during the anthem?
So when rams players came out of the tunnel with their hands up and worn I can’t breathe shirts why did it stir up so much trouble? They didn’t protest during the anthem.
Oh it was cause it was on the owners time?
So when the police threatened to no longer watch as security at games was this not also on their jobs time? And a police not doing their job is a matter of life or death. A football player not doing their job is a matter of entertainment.

So football players can’t protest but trump on his tweeter supports the Chicago police department for protesting their mayor. Actually there was a blue Wednesday where the police, most likely on the clock, showed up to demonstrate.

Now I’m a bit confused because it seems like the football players are protesting the police’s actions. And the police are protesting not being supported by their mayor or being vilified. Yet only one group is being banned from protesting. So what are the police protesting… Their right to shoot unarmed people (blacks at a higher number but this is a people issue because police have shot unarmed of all races… Not just blacks).
Heck the Chicago police are upset that they have to file paperwork for every stop and frisk they do. They are literally protesting doing more work for their jobs… But anywho I’m just confused.

Then the statement that blacks kill blacks so blacks must deal with that issue first before worrying about police’s killing blacks… Well if I chose not to argue that point… Could I not extrapolate it?
Fans are disrespecting the anthems more than football players. The fans should work on getting their fellow fans to respect the anthem before they worry about the football players doing the same.
I mean honestly 53 players per team, two teams a game, at most 16 games a week. Simple math shows that even if every player kneeled that’s still only 106*16 or 1696 individual protesting people a week. There’s more fans in a section disrespecting the flag and anthem than there players are all around the league.
Im just confused.

But what also confuses me is the voices of the veterans who agree with the kneeling. Who felt like they fought for the right to protest and thus their lives were used in vain if the rights to protest is taken away from any I individual. I’m confused because are they veterans deserving respect?

It’s like a person who streaks across the field. The only people who see it are the people in the stadium cause the NFL just shows some random stretch of the field.
Couldn’t the NFL allow players to protest and just show some fly over or a large image of the flag during this? Players get to protest, and fans at home don’t see it.

And if the NFL is worried about people coming to the stadium cause of the protests okay I see that. Maybe people will stop coming. By I’m pretty sure ads, concession sales, parking sales, merchandise sales, and etc will squeeze every penny out of the fans who do watch

Why isn’t anyone talking about how bad of a quarterback Kaep was in the first place? Didn’t they have to run a high school offense for him? It’s a lot easier to kneel down than it is make hot reads, isn’t it?

You guys do realize that these kneelers are racists, right? I hope everyone who decides to sit out for these clowns is cut and never re-hired again by any NFL football team. Enough already with this garbage. Lets play the game on the field.

Gee, if the sit-outs include Michael Bennett, Marshawn Lynch, the Browns DB who tweeted a picture of a cop’s throat being slashed, and the Chiefs DB who stayed in the tunnel rather than observe an NFL moment of silence for the 59 slain and 600 wounded in Las Vegas, I might resume watching. And if the sit-outs became permanent, I might just re-institute the season tickets I canceled this year after 40+ years.

You mention “Shaun King”, like nobody knows who that is…and a bunch of self-centered American athletes sacrifice REAL MONEY for the “greater good”? I’m calling B.S.

Unless these “star players” are the guys who are already holding out/staying home…i.e. Aaron Donald, Le’Veon Bell, Tom Brady…ahhhh, who am I kidding.

This Dolezal-esque Shaun King BLM guy and aNY players hyping him up are totally delusional. Do it. Play hardball with the league.

See how many of your brothers got your back or are more focused on “feeding their family” (ahem…personal interest/gain/greed), like Sprewell. They may even call it a “commitment to their team”. But we know, everybody is loyal to the money. Stop playin.

As for what happens in court and with Trump’s U.S. Code violation, we’ll see. But I ain’t buyin’ this, at all.

Good!!! I hope they sit out for the rest of their careers, just like I hope Kaepernick and Reid never play again!
Tonight I watched two shows on PBS. The first one involved the placing of the remains of a crewman of the USS Arizona down with the ship. His name was Raymond Haerry and he was thrown overboard when the first bomb hit the Arionza on Dec 7, 1941. He managed to swim through the flames on the oily water and made it to shore. He had died in 2017 at age 94, and wished that his remains be placed with his former ship mates.
The second show was the annual Memorial Day celebration from Washington, honoring our military service men and women from the past and present.
I had tears in my eyes watching both of those shows and when I think of these dirt bag players disgracing our National Anthem and our flag in the name of their selfish, biased and misguided opinions, I get really angry.
It’s Memorial Day weekend. We should honor our fine men and women who are serving or have served all of us so that we might enjoy the freedoms we have. It’s a disgrace to even mention Colin Kaepernick or Eric Reid, especially at this time.

“[s]everal NFL stars have told me they are considering sitting out the season until the de facto ban of Eric Reid and Colin Kaepernick is removed and both men are given spots back on rosters.” …….. then we just looked at each other and laughed and laughed …..

The players should be careful.. 99% of the public make a fraction of their salary… And work for employers that do not allow protesting political causes on company time. The players are really demonstrating their disconnect with the Public. All the advertisers and fans buy tickets and pay money to be a part of the NFL. Anyone tha hijacks the nfls ability to deliver what the customers -advertisers want, has to go!

NFL owners should vote on a rule that allows any team that cuts a player for skipping g a game in protest salary cap relief so the team can hire an immediate replacement. The team still follows the contractual obligation to the player, it just won’t count against the cap.

Why is it these guys don’t protest anywhere else but their own NFL game on someone’s else’s time and dime while insulated from the general public? One would think if they really want to show how they feel, keeping your seat on the front row at an NBA game would be a great place to garner some attention…

Lately I have seen accusations of police harassment the like directly contradicted by video evidence from body cams. Now the ACLU wants body cams banned because of the evidence they show. And we are all supposed to believe there is some major injustice in this country? The whole BLM movement was started with a lie. Now it has snowballed into the NFL players trying to end the game they get paid millions to play? I fully believe King is a lying piece of garbage, so I find it hard to believe this nonsense.

I will bet anybody a MILION DOLLARS NO STAR PLAYERS WILL NOT PLAY BECAUSE OF KAEPERNICK..Hate to break the news but not everyone cares about a backup QB…
Not to mention no player is going to give up that pay check.
It’s not happening…
This Shaun King likes to make up lies

So your telling me the unionize players that can’t even sit out for a full season to increase their benefits and pay is somehow gonna sit out out 2 games so 2 overrated players can get jobs? Yea right. If this idiot thing happens i can see players left and right taking out high interest loans like last time.

Owners are holding out until 2021. Then the players will hold out, then the owners will play with scabs. We will watch the scabs because we love football. The players will start to run out of money. Then the players will sign a deal with way more restrictions than they have now.

Why? The owners are rich and have lots of fruitful investments. The players earn way less and buy way more. Owners will always get the better deal.

Players still earn way too much to play a sport. In all sports. Then they cry when they go belly up. Finish school kids, play the game. Invest your money. Become the owner.

Now there is an easier way to protest. Just stay in the locker room, especially if one is a star player. Those network cameras may not notice a special teams player missing but they will surely notice any starter missing during the anthem.

Organize your forces before you go on strike. If you get enough players to sit out that games would be missed, the NFL would have no choice but to give way to your demands. If you don’t get enough players, the NFL will probably crack down and exacerbate the problem, but you’ll be out of jobs with little gain. Alright, make it a big one!

I so wish they would do this but they won’t be they are liars. The idiots who suggest they would do that do not deserve to live in America because they don’t understand how well they have it in this great country.

Shaun King of false stories is the source of the story. I am highly skeptical. I would really like to know who would sit out at the cost of fines and missed paydays. Not to mention being on the list of the majority of fans. Could imagine what would happen when they came back? FCOL, I think the players that stay in the locker room for the anthem are going to get massacred when they come out every game. It is pretty tough to boo an entire time when only a few do it on the field. It is pretty easy to boo the chuckleheads that single themselves out. Completely sitting out of a game would be the kiss of death. You had better be Brady, Mack, Miller, Ryan, Dak or your career could follow the path of the guys you are supporting.

The players should voice their concern for police brutality and protest by just not disrespecting the National Anthem; NFL Players should lock arms while standing to show respect for the National Anthem. Player representatives should lead and seek a compromise on this issue.

Ok, I love watching the NFL. I will miss the hell out of it, BUT I will be able to live without it. Hey, these players will them be able to go our in the community and help solve the social issues they lost there jobs over! College football will become even more popular!

If your issue is “police brutality” set up work-shops on how people should act when pulled over by the police (there is a right way and a wrong way) and make donations toward police training as a pilot project to see if alleged incidents go down in areas where your training/ideas are implemented.

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Thank you for bringing up the personal responsibility component to living in a free society. To often absent in these conversations. Life is not a one way street.

I have said this time and time again. If NFL players want to protest police brutality, it is OK with me. What is not OK is where they protest. They kneel on the grounds of their employers. Not OK. Let imagine that U work, for example, Apple, Johnson and Johnson, JPMorgan and U go outside their building and protest. What do U think will happen?
Let these NFL players rent an arena and protest or go to a national park and put on a program of protest. I am all for ppl who want to express their view. But I am not for those NFL players who do it on their employers grounds and while our flag is being displayed.
They say it is. It about the flag. Kapernick says it is about a country that oppresses. Well get your signs and go protest, but not on your employers grounds.
So he and Eric Reid R out of football. Why? B C the American ppl do not like what they R doing in a football stadium. Fans and attendance along with sponsors will dictate to the owners what they should do. This is not going away.

guessing these other “star” players are also still in search of a job. No one in their right mind would actually sit out. easy to say they are “considering” because it shows some sense of support for their friend but “considering” and “doing” are 2 totally different things.

Stories like this are WHY Kaepernick and Reid are unemployed. It has nothing to do with their politics, it’s about the media clusterf that will follow them around for the rest of their lives. If you hire either one of these guys, you stop being the Cincinnati Bengals, or Mike McCarthy’s team, or Philip River’s team, and become Colin Kaepernick’s team or the Eric Reid franchise. An NFL team’s focus needs to be on winning football games and no owner, no coach, no player wants that kind of distraction affecting their team’s performance on the field.

As long as the media keep obsessing about Kaep and Reid not playing football, Kaep and Redi will not be playing football. End of Story.

This is one of those comments by Shawn King that appears made up more of hope than fact. The idea that anywhere near 25% of players would even consider this is laughably silly.

Look, in the NFL, much like in real life, it’s every man for himself. This anthem issue is just not important enough to these players to entice them to reject losing millions of dollars and years off their career.

This whole concept (that King is pushing, along with others in the media) is that Kaepernick and Reid have a right to spot on an NFL roster. That assertion is false for the as it is for every other player in the NFL.

When they decided to take a knee during the National Anthem they defeated their cause.it appeared they were disrespecting our flag,the military who fought for our liberty,and our country.Kaps protest had good meaning but he went about it all wrong,he should have found another way to protest.he knew the risks of his actions could cause him to seek work outside of football,and that is what happened.

I HAVE A SOLOUTION! Charge each individual for advertising. They are using a place of business to express a point of view. others do the same . they are called advertisers. charge them the same $300,000.00 rate. FOR EACH PERSON THAT KNEELS. So the average National Anthem takes 2 minutes. So they would each owe $1,200,000.00 per game. Now that would be fair. The players would get a chance to voice their concerns about social injustice while paying fair market value to get their plight out into the public.

It’s like Forrest Gump when he started running and people just followed him. Kaep started kneeling and when he stopped said, “I’m getting kinda fired. I think I’ll go home now.” Now everyone with him that doesn’t have a job said the same thing as the follower in the movie. “Now what are we gonna do?”

I love Solidarity, especially in the unemployment line. It is time to cut the head off of this snake! The only thing these guys love more than activism is getting paid. Some might try it, and some might even get cut. I say GOOD! The message has been said, so what can regular Citizens do? Enough is enough!

Ya, that will work. GM’s are in charge of their rosters and it is dangerous for the players to start telling the GM’s who they “need” to sign. Most of these players have been coddled since college and don’t understand the basic premise behind, Actions have consequences.

But if they truly want to sit out, I support their actions. Now let’s see them try to live on money earned outside the NFL. If they can do that, then they are truly men of principle. Ya, right.

King? Ya, that guy regularly lies so I doubt he has “several NFL Stars” telling him anything. Besides no NFL Star is going to sit out of camp @ at an expense of $40,000 Dollars per day in fines ON TOP of losing out on Game Checks worth hundreds of thousands of dollars PER Game!!! Ya, that aint happening.

The self importance of these players is actually funny. Go who cares be like any other work force where either you quit or let go and no one remembers your name three days later. These players have zero clue of reality and they produce zero but to give ones something to do on Sunday before a new work week.

Sit out and see how you get on then. Too bad you are so dumb.
I am sure the owners can’t wait for this to happen, what a bunch of losers.
This has got very boring for the fans, and that’s why they don’t watch anymore.
Stand up and shut up.

Why continue to blame the president, the owners, the nfl? You keep trying to vilify them all. It’s the fans that spoke and simply asked for the product they are paying for with their hard earned money to stop disrespecting fallen soldiers who protect this country.

Isn’t this the same Shaun King that falsely reported the black woman who accused a cop of raping her during her DWI arrest only to be found out a complete lie when body cam footage was released?? Shaun King is a race baiting hack. Poor excuse for a journalist.

You know what would be amazingly ironic? A number of players sit out, this includes a qb that commands a huge salary (pick one). The team goes to backfill those positions with people off the street and this includes Kaepernick who is coming in for second-third string money. Then Kaepernick plays lights out, every bit as good as the expensive qb that was sitting out waiting for Reid to get signed too. The team then decides to stick with Kaepernick and save all that money so they cut the expensive guy. Or this story could be told with Reid in the safety position replacing a big tocket player who had sat out.

Yeah totally smart idea. Let’s set out and cry and screw ourselves out of millions until teams sign a guy who was the back up to Blaine bleeping Gabbert and the safety who has had several concussions and not the best safety avabile with arguably two better safeties who are arguably better then him. Smart ideas guys!”

This al really about power more than just protest. Black players are really stating, were in power, we are the majority and no one can order us to do things not involved in actual game play. That’s why the b
NFL answer to this wouldn’t go away, there trying to tell the players, you will not do this, were the owners.

When the Tennessee Titans let go the former Ohio State running back Eddie George and no team signed him why did not the same thing happen then? Why does one or two players that are not signed cause such a ruckus? Certainly, this happens every year with some body. When one player starts and another does not why does the same thing not happen? May be it will. Oakland’s QB got sacked for this very reason? He stood while others knelt. The end of the National Football league is coming, as sure as dog poop stinks.

Good then that will open the door for some of the younger guys who what a job and are not worried about being seen as someone who has a cause to stand up for ~ I have watched a couple of players who have been interviewed on the subject and they didn’t even seem to know what they are talking about or what they are upset about and outside of cops~cops~cops ~ Maybe its just me ~ ????

JMHO here and its worth what you pay for it ~ I never thought Kaepernick was special as a QB ~ As a runner yes ~ If he could have an OK game as a QB and a great day as a runner then he looks much better ~

Reid, I don’t much about so I can’t or won’t speak about him as a player ~

Stopped reading as soon as I read Shaun King. The race baiter is just promoting his brand. Still waiting for him to apologize to the cop in Texas, whose life he tried to ruin by stating lies about raping a woman as facts. Any thing the comes out of this guys mouth is a lie as far as I’m concerned until he corrects the previous lies and mistruths.

This is one of the most idiotic stories and it just keeps getting worse.Yep lets set out and try and make our Employers hire someone they do not want.I hope every one of them that do sit (which I do not think any of the “stars” have the balls to do it)get there walking papers.

I will give Florio credit in this regard, comments that disagree with his posts make it through “being moderated” far more often than when certain other writers post.

If I have missed it, I apologize; but, I would love to see an honest Poll on PFT on the Kaepernick (kneeling/pig-socks/pro-Castro) issue. I would be that 75%+ of NFL FANS are fine with no team signing him and the game moving on.

Not that I believe this for a second, but if it’s true, what do they think the owners will do, cave? All the owners have to do to stop this kind of thing is say that anyone who does this is fired. Then the fired players can join the collusion lawsuit when no other team will take them. That would be comical. Go ahead and do it, we’ll all be laughing hysterically.

Bound to fail. No popular support. The country isn’t a collective of racists. Racism is a fringe ostracized attitude that has no mainstream institutional support. We elected an African American President. One of the most popular initiatives of the previous Democratic Presidents was adding MORE COPS through the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office)program. Most big city mayors who run big city police departments are minorities. According to research, out of 51 cities with populations of more than 250,000 only eleven could be described as conservative. These are nothing but agenda guys. Guys with a viewpoint who want it heard despite the facts.

I am not comfortable watching U.S. sporting events when many of the players indicate they they do not like the U.S. or Caucasians.

So the more of them who do not take the field the better as far as I am concerned.

They can afford to leave and go where they would be happier and I think they should.

I have no problem watching foreign teams play and their perspective on the U.S. is not important as I can just admire their athletic ability. But to play in the U.S. in a U.S. league there needs to be some respect for the U.S. and diversity and I don’t like traitors or bigots so let them sit.